M0003710: Thirteen skulls showing various methods of trephining

Previous title, replaced May 2020: A number of prehistoric operations upon the skull, together with ancient and modern trephining instruments

Photographic print publication showing thirteen skulls with various methods of trephing as well as trephining instruments. The instruments are both ancient and modern.

27 November 1933

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8 x 11 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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